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Sub-Saharan Africa Compared by Health > Life expectancy at birth > Female > Years

DEFINITION: Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

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# COUNTRY AMOUNT DATE GRAPH HISTORY
1 Seychelles 77 years 2002
2 Mauritius 76.52 years 2005
3 Cape Verde 73.88 years 2005
4 Sao Tome and Principe 64.59 years 2005
5 Comoros 64.02 years 2005
6 The Gambia 58.16 years 2005
7 Sudan 58.07 years 2005
8 Ghana 57.97 years 2005
9 Senegal 57.74 years 2005
10 Madagascar 57.1 years 2005
11 Togo 56.96 years 2005
12 Eritrea 56.81 years 2005
13 Benin 55.79 years 2005
14 Mauritania 55.3 years 2005
15 Djibouti 54.55 years 2005
16 Gabon 54.31 years 2005
17 Guinea 54.29 years 2005
18 Uganda 50.64 years 2005
19 Mali 49.28 years 2005
20 Burkina Faso 49.27 years 2005
21 Somalia 48.97 years 2005
22 South Africa 48.68 years 2005
23 Kenya 48.11 years 2005
24 Cote d'Ivoire 46.94 years 2005
25 Namibia 46.81 years 2005
26 Tanzania 46.65 years 2005
27 Cameroon 46.64 years 2005
28 Guinea-Bissau 46.51 years 2005
29 Rwanda 45.73 years 2005
30 Burundi 45.67 years 2005
31 Chad 45.11 years 2005
32 Democratic Republic of the Congo 45.1 years 2005
33 Niger 44.97 years 2005
34 Nigeria 44 years 2005
35 Ethiopia 43.43 years 2005
36 Liberia 43.3 years 2005
37 Angola 42.92 years 2005
38 Sierra Leone 42.78 years 2005
39 Equatorial Guinea 42.6 years 2005
40 Mozambique 42.25 years 2005
41 Swaziland 40.71 years 2005
42 Malawi 40.22 years 2005
43 Central African Republic 40.13 years 2005
44 Zambia 37.9 years 2005
45 Zimbabwe 36.55 years 2005
46 Lesotho 35.86 years 2005
47 Botswana 34.47 years 2005

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